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The world is ill divided : women's work in Scotland in the 19th and early 20th centuries

This is the history of women's waged work during the 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at eight different areas ranging from the Borders to the North-East of Scotland and jobs such as prostitution, domestic labour, and the openings for women in the printing trade.
Print Book, English, 1989
186 p. ; 23 cm.
9780748601165, 0748601163
1035896445
The view from the workplace: women's memories of work in Stirling c. 1910 - 1950, Jayne D Stephenson and Callum G Brown; The wages of sin: women, work and sexuality in the 19th century, Linda Mahood; women in the printing and paper trades in Edwardian Scotland, Sian Reynolds; early Glasgow women medical graduates, Wendy Alexander; "ye never get a spell to think aboot it" - young women and employment in the inter-war period, a case-study of a textile village, James J Smyth; in bondage - the female farm worker in South-east Scotland, Barbara W Robertson; rural and urban women in domestic service, Lynn Jamieson; fit work for women - sweated home-workers in Glasgow c. 1875 - 1914, Alice J Albert.